We’ve Chosen Carol Benson-Cobb Works for Kennon-Green & Co.
After careful consideration, Aaron and I decided that the Kennon-Green & Co. office will feature mixed media works by Carol Benson-Cobb, a wonderful artist located in Dallas, Texas.
After careful consideration, Aaron and I decided that the Kennon-Green & Co. office will feature mixed media works by Carol Benson-Cobb, a wonderful artist located in Dallas, Texas.
Remember back in 2012 when Jimmy came on one of his regular house guest trips to visit Aaron and me in Kansas City? The time when we went to the Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art? Today, he took us to the Art Institute of Chicago. You already experienced the incredible Thorne miniatures installment in another post,…
After viewing the fields of Ojai yesterday, we decided to go to Pasadena today, with a quick detour to La Cañada Flintridge. A big thank you to A Patel, who suggested in the comments on the post about Montecito that we stop by The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens. This place is wonderful! I knew next…
I finally have it – Scrooge McDuck’s Evening Adventure is mine! After more than 9 years of waiting, searching, and trying to find it, again, it is mine!
There is a painting from 1750 by artist Thomas Gainsborough called Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. The original hangs in the National Gallery in London, England, where it has been held in collection for more than 50 years. The painting depicts a man, Mr. Robert Andrews, and his wife, Frances Mary Carter. The two were promised…
After arriving at the Animal Kingdom Deluxe Resort in Walt Disney World, Aaron and I headed to Downtown Disney to check out the shops and wait for the other people in our party to arrive from elsewhere in the United States. We found our way to the shuttle “motor coach”, in Disney speak, and upon…
I was enjoying a discussion with someone about hyperrealism around the time I wrote last night about my love for the works of Eric Christensen, Pedro Campos, Steve Mills, and Nathan Taylor, when they kept insisting that stil life paintings, particularly those that are close to a photograph, lack emotion. (I completely disagree – the…
Hyperrealism is my favorite style of painting. Then again, I’ve always felt like life, as it is, is beautiful. Life, in all of its messy, unpredictable madness of patterns and light, din and music. It is difficult to explain, but when I see a certain style of painting in the hyperrealism genre, I instantly get the…
Years ago, the Walt Disney Company released a limited edition Scrooge McDuck Cookie Jar, restricted to 250 copies. I spotted one at a good price a few days ago and bought it for the Carl Barks collection. It arrived and is now right where it belongs.
We finally got a few of the other Carl Barks collection framed for the office walls. I’ve been meaning to get pictures up for months and finally just decided to stop and do it. I was browsing auction records tonight so it reminded me …